EVE
The engagement party was loud, bright, and exhausting. Everything about it screamed perfection. I was so f*****g tired of it all.
Maybe it was because I wasn't the one being proposed to, the one wearing the flawless diamond and sparkling eyes, the one everyone would call "the fiancée."
Maybe it was because I had spent the last week wrapped up in my own world, my own freedom, and now I had to step back into this.
My parents, I was sure, had made it their mission for Roman to go big, to propose again to Courtney.
They probably thought it would cement everything, smooth over the tensions, make the night about happiness and family.
I was about to leave when my father stepped in front of me. His presence was so intimidating, and in that moment, I realized he had been wa
